[Scilab-Dev] GMP/MPFR and scilab.

[Collette Yann]

Good question. I'm looking at how to add overloading of a macro in the 
source code and it's a nightmare :)

YC

Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
> How would one add a type in scilab anyways? I peeked at the source
> code but the core module is not that well commented(no offense).
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> Jonathan Blanchard
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> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Collette Yann <ycollet at freesurf.fr> wrote:
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>> Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I see that one of the scilab development ideas is adding GMP/MPFR
>>> support in scilab. Is there currently any activities on this project?
>>>
>>> Jonathan Blanchard
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>>>       
>> Hello,
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>> Not yet. A Matlab toolbox exists which should be relatively easy to port to
>> scilab.
>> But a presentation of the wiki page shows that the approach used in the
>> matlab toolbox (store the results in strings) is slow and another approach
>> can be used (defined a special scilab type).
>> This approach seems a little bit hard for me. But the first one is easy. I
>> am currently on another task, so I will not wok on this one.
>>
>> Yann
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